Candle-lamp.



C. E. KAIL.

CANDLE LAMP.

APPLICATION FILED APE.24, 1911.

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CHARLES E. KAIL, OF SUSQUEHANNA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO BLUE RIDGE METAL MFG. COMPANY, OF SUSQUEI-IANNA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CANDLE-LAMP.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, CHAnLns Fl. Kain, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Susquehanna, in, the county of Susquehanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Candle-Lamps; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention is a candle lamp base, and the object of the same is to produce an improved metal base into which the candle is inserted and which in turn is inserted for support into the candle stick. This object is accomplished by the construction hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and as shown in the drawings wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of this base complete. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the various parts thereof, slightly separated from each other.

In the drawings the numeral 5 designates the tubular barrel which is of an interior size to accommodate the candle and may have threads 6 around its upper end as shown, but its lower end is provided with an outwardly projecting flange 7. The numeral 8 designates a flaring ring whose interior diameter is such that it may slip over the barrel and rest upon the flange. The numeral 9 designates a cup which has its lower end closed as at 10, its body 11 truly cylindrical and by preference of slightly less external size than that of the barrel 5, and its upper end enlarged into a flaring mouth 1:2 whose walls initially incline outward as seen in Fig. 3, there being something of a shoulder 18 between the mouth 12 and the body 11. The latter is provided with slits 1a in each side. The numeral 15 designates a spring plate having cut out of its body and bent into parallelism two small tongues 16 so spaced that they will pass into the slits 14:. With the parts so far described I employ an expander 17 which is by preference of cup-shape and whose function will be explained below. All these component parts of the device are of metal, and by preference are of the proportionate sizes and shapes shown in Fig. 3, and their manner of assembly will now be explained.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 24, 1911.

Patented Nov. 7, 1911.

Serial No. 622,897.

In the finished article there are two of the spring plates 15, and they are brought into position first against opposite sides of the body 11 and their tongues 16 entered through the slits 1 1 and bent over so as to hold the plates in a manner which will be clear. The cup-shaped expander 17 is then forced down into the body 11 of the cup 9 so that the ends of the tongues 16 are prevented from straightening out, and by this means the spring plates 15 are reliably held upon the exterior of the cup 9 with their extremities projecting slightly therefrom as best seen in Fig. 2. I might say here that the obvious purpose of these springs is to hold the improved candle lamp base removably within a candle stick and with some friction so that it cannot be accidentally knocked out of position therein. The next.

step is to pass the ring 8 over the upper end of the barrel 5 and down upon the same until it rests upon its flange 7 Then said flange and ring are dropped into the flaring mouth 12 of the cup and allowed to rest upon the shoulder 13. These parts are then brought against a suitable machine by means of which the edge of the flaring mouth 12 is spun inward over the upper or wider edge of the ring 8 and toward the wall of the barrel 5 in a manner well known to those who are familiar with sheet metal work. Hence the cup 9 with its spring plates 15 is firmly attached to the barrel member 5 which is of course intended to receive the candle, the threads 6 being for the purpose of screwing a shade holder thereon. Furthermore, all parts might be ornamented as the demands of the trade require, and considerable change in the details of construction could be adopted without departing from the principle of my invention.

Thus it will be seen that I have produced an improved candle lamp base made entirely of light sheet metal and of parts which may be initially stamped up in proper dies and assembled quickly by hand in the manner above set forth. It will not be necessary in this specification to amplify the uses to which such a device may be put. I reserve the privilege of inserting an expansive coiled spring 20 within the barrel 5 as indicated in Fig. 8, which spring carries a button 21 at its upper end as shown, so that when the candle is inserted therein it bears downward upon the button and compresses the spring; and the latter afterward pushes the candle upward with gentle force, thereby feeding it automatically to proper position comprising a tubular barrel having a flange around 1ts lower end, a flarlng ring restlng upon said flange, a cup having a cylindrical body and a flaring mouth whose edge is curled around and over said ring, and springs carried by the body of the cup.

2. The herein described candle lamp base comprising a tubular barrel, a cup having a cylindrical body provided with slits, a spring plate having laterally projecting tongues adapted to enter said slits, and means for holding the tongues in the slits.

3. The herein described candle lamp base comprising a tubular barrel, a cup having a cylindrical body provided with slits, a spring plate having laterally projecting tongues adapted to enter said slits and be bent over therein, and an expander within said cup against the inner I ends of the tongues.

4. In a candle lamp base, the combination with a tubular barrel having a flange around its lower end, a cup having a cylindrical body smaller than that of said tubular barrel, an outwardly projecting shoulder around its upper end resting beneath said flange, and a flaring mouth above the shoulder curved over said flange, and a ring clamped between the inturned upper end of the mouth and said body-flange; of an expansive coiled spring within the barrel, and a button at the upper end of the spring.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES E. KAIL.

Witnesses CLAYTON WASHBURN, MARJORIE BROWN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, 1). G. 

